Alan Warde, FBA,

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(born 18 August 1949)"Warde, Prof. Alan"
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, December 2018). Retrieved 10 October 2023. is a British sociologist and academic. He has been Professor of Sociology at the

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since 1999.

Education and career

Born in 1949, Warde was educated at

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, graduating with a BA in 1971. He then completed an MA at

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and carried out

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at the

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; his

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was awarded in 1976 for his

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"Ideology, strategy and intra-party division in the British Labour Party, 1956-74". Warde was appointed to a

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in 1978 and was promoted to a

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there in 1994, before becoming a

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in 1996. In 1999, he was appointed Professor of Sociology at the

Honours and awards

In 2018, Warde was elected a

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of the

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, the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences."Record number of academics elected to British Academy"
''British Academy'', 20 July 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2019. In 2011, he had also been elected a Fellow of the

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Publications

* ''Consensus and Beyond: The Development of Labour Party Strategy since the Second World War'' (

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, 1982). * (Co-authored with

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) ''Social Change in Contemporary Britain'' (Polity, 1992). * (Co-authored with

) ''Stratification and Social Inequality: Studies in British Society'' (Framework, 1994). * (Co-authored with

) ''Family, Household and the Life-Course: Studies in British Society'' (Framework, 1994). * (Co-authored with Mike Savage) ''Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity'' ( Palgrave, 1993; 2nd ed. with Kevin Ward, 2002). * (Co-authored with Stephen Edgell and Kevin Hetherington) ''Consumption Matters: The Production and Experience of Consumption'' (Wiley, 1996). * ''Consumption, Food and Taste: Culinary Antimonies and Commodity Culture'' (

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, 1997). * (Co-authored with Lydia Martens) ''Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure'' (

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, 2000). * (Edited with

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, Sue Penna,

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, John Urry and

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) ''Contemporary British Society: A New Introduction to Sociology'' (

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, 2000). * (Edited with Jukka Gronow) ''Ordinary Consumption'' (Routledge, 2001). * (Edited with

) ''The Contemporary British Society Reader'' (Polity, 2001). * (Edited with Stan Metcalfe) ''Market Relations and the Competitive Process'' (Manchester University Press, 2002). * (Edited with

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and Andrew Mcmeekin) ''Qualities of Food'' (Manchester University Press, 2004). * (Co-authored with Unni Kjaernes and

) ''Trust in Food: An Institutional and Comparative Analysis'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). * (Co-authored with

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, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright) ''Culture, Class, Distinction'' (Routledge, 2009). * ''The Practice of Eating'' (Polity, 2016). * ''Consumption: A Sociological Analysis'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Warde, Alan Living people 1949 births British sociologists Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of Leeds Academics of Lancaster University Academics of the University of Manchester Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Alumni of Durham University Graduate Society